Thanks for your prompt replies.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:06 AM, mandaillou
> <amanda-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote:
>
> > On the forum, I found people facing the same problem and the error was
> > related to the tapecycle. Mine is 12 and I have 12 reusable tapes.
> >
>
> Right -- if you're doing 14 backups (2 weeks, every day), you're not
> going to fit that on 12 tapes. You need 15 tapes.
>
I wasn't clear enough. I run a backup every working day (monday to friday),
which means 10 backup per cycle so I guess 12 tapes is enough.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>
> Furthermore, it looks like you don't have enough holding-disk space:
>
> > FAILED [no more holding disk space]
> >
> which is causing your dumps to go straight to tape, which isn't very
> efficient.
>
I confess I haven't configurated this part. I understood (maybe I'm wrong) that
it would work anyway.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>
> Furthermore, your tape only wrote a bit over 1G:
>
> > DailySet-05 2:11 1140224K 28.8 1 0
> >
> which is 28% of the length you specified in your tapetype definition.
> Is there a problem with the tape? Or is the tapetype definition
> incorrect?
>
I'm using 4Go tapes. They are all new and I have the same problem for every
tape. I've used amtapetype for amanda.conf configuration.
Below is the extract from amanda.conf related to the tapetype definition.
> define tapetype HP-C1537A{
> length 3868 mbytes
> filemark 225 kbytes
> speed 491 kps
> }
>
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> mandaillou wrote:
> Quote:
> NOTES:
> taper: tape DailySet-05 kb 1783648 fm 2 writing file: No space left on
> device
>
> The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger tape.
>
The capacity of all my tapes is 4Go. I feel like Amanda doesn't overwrite the
tape but just fill the tape until it's full and then exit with the previous
error message : "The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger
tape."
PS:can anybody tell me why I can't see my original post but only the replies ?
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